Ma he held the gaze for and then gave a low — ——“Is this a free translaiton?” asked a customer in the book store. “No, sir,” replied the clerk, “it will cost vou a dollar :ifty.” —Boston ' | { The Beaver at York and Play. | quarter of a mile up stream, yet less | paws drooping, i than five minutes had elapsed from | several oh. the time of Diver's cry when two bea- ' whistle. ver appeared, swimming low and “At this Diver came forth from be- NOT A COMFORTABLE ABODE S—— o—— First White House, According to Re- The beaver is the original engineer of the wonds and it is appropriate Benoit ports, by No Means a Desi that America’s most noted technical | cautiously in the stream before me. | hind my coat to see what was going | Transcript. Bellefonte, Pa., September 8, 1916. P fisrka N of a fasle baal os choose the animal for | A minute later another came in sight | on. The old one started forward to ® its emblem. For the beaver is a [from downstream. All circled about, | meet him, but on having a good gk | Te FINALLY GOT HIS DESERTS The formal er ‘of the nati builder of canals, tunnels, dams, |SWimming cautiously with heads held | at me whirled and mad. a jumping low in the water. One scented the place where the coyote had attacked Diver, and waddled out and made a dive into the water, whacking the sur- face with his tail as he disappeared. Instantly ther& followed two more roads, houses, a worker in wood and capital from Philadelphia to Washing: earth. No graduate of the Massachu- ton took place in October of 1800. A Originator of One of the Meanest: Kinds of Fraud to Have Some Time for Reflection. Ferdinand Drabina, a young man ‘who emigrated to the United States in 1907, and who after a varied career as waiter, hotel porter, laborer in the gold mines in Colorado and salesman, few months before that time, on May 27, President John Adams left Phila. delphia to visit the new capital. He was much feted en route, not only as the president of the United States, but also because he had been one of the committee of five appointed in 1778 to prepare a declaration of independence, setts Institute of Technology does better work in his own world than the beaver in his, nor is anyone of them his superior in industry. He is a strict vegetarian and a model of good will toward all. Indeed, if it were not for his action toward the muskrut one might think him a veritable four- footed Quaker in his non-resistance to evil. sniffing examination. Another came ashore at the spot where Diver came out to me. Apparently his eyes told him I was a part of the log, but his nose proclaimed danger. After three or four hesitating and ineffectual at- tempts to retreat, he plucked up courage and rose to full height on hird legs and tail to stzre eagerly at on the bank of the Snake river. followed the children romped with them.” splashes and a number of tail-whacks upon the water, as though a beaver rescue party were beating a retreat. “At the end of my outing Diver he- came the pet of two pioneer children He about and Niagara Falls Personally-Conducted Excursions September 15, and 29 Round $9.30 Trip FROM BELLEFONTE settled down in 1912 as a correspond- S04 | Pevause he had Sotnged) Bigeny Predatory animals of the woods eat | me. With head well up and fore| ——Put your ad. in the WATCHMAN. SPECIAL TRAIN of Pullipan Parlor Coss. ‘ent for a banking firm in Chicago, has y resolution that th the beaver, from the panther to the ——————————————————— — Restaurant Car, and Day Coaches through Just been sent to prison for two years | States “are and of right ought to be otter; the beaver eats none, but when CASTORIA. CASTORIA. the land a half for obtaining money from lAustrian banks on falsified orders from Austro-Hungarians in America. ‘A part of the business of the banking firm that employed Drabina was the transfer of money from emigrants to their families in Austria-Hungary. The young man conceived the idea, and at his first opportunity carried it lout, of making the orders payable to himself rather than to the stipulated payee. The drafts thus falsified he mailed to a “co-worker” in Austria, and in the summer of 1914 he fol- lowed the bogus paper across the At- lantic. After collecting several thou- sand kronen—17,000 in the city of Os- ‘trau alone—he took lodgings with a ‘humble family and by means of his apparent wealth succeeded easily in free and independent.” Thecapital at that time was referred to as “a great Serbonian bog,” and even the plucky Mrs. Adams—who by her admirers was sometimes called the “Portia of the rebellious provinces” on account of her unselfish devotion to the cause of the revolution—was some- what dismayed when she arrived at the new White House as its first mis- tress. She evidently considered it a dreary prospect, judging from her first letter to her daughter after her arrival. The house was cold and drafty, and though it was surrounded by a forest, there seemed great difficulty in getting wood cut and carted for the president’s use, as there was also difficulty ‘in get- ting grates made and set, they could not burn coal, so the mansion was not the muskrat invades his ponds and burrows in his dam, making holes that wreck his engineeirng, he rises in his wrath and kills the muskrat if he cannot drive him away. This ought to seem allowable even in the very pronounced pacifist. Not long ago the Massachusetts In- i stitute of Technology celebrated its : fiftieth anniversary in many ways, i some of them very solemn and digni- fied as befits so great a technical i school, others jovial enough to please ' any undergraduate. One day of jolli- | ty was at Nantasket Beach, where | class after class did “stunts” for the { admiration of the great throng as- | sembled. In one of these “stunts” the i Tech beaver figured, a most imposing animal—some thirty feet long—which moved majestically up the beach ac- tivated by concealed man-power. in use for over 30 years, sonal and has been made The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been has borne the signature of under his pere supervision since its infancy. Picturesque Susquehanna Valley Tickets good going on Special Train and connecting trains, and returning on regu- lar trains within FIFTEEN DAYS. Stop- off at Buffalo on return trip. Illustrated Booklet and full information may be obtained from Ticket Agents. Pennsylvania R. R. 61-27-10t LIME! Lime and Limestone For All Purposes. Anfatuating the daughter. When, how- | comfortable. . The beaver has been of great com- = Id % Allow no one to deceive you in this. ‘over. he gas Aughion and oh up Mrs. Adams made a brave effort to | mercial value to mankind since the All Counterfeits, Imitations and ¢¢ Just-as-good ’ are but H O-1, I M E another charmer she denounced him | have the house put in order by the | country was first settled. One of the Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of ‘to the police as a “suspicious Ameri- ican” who had no visible means of sup- port, and who must have something to conceal because he had never gone ‘through the necessary formality of registerine with the police. An inves- tigation resulted that has only been concluded with Drabina’s conviction. —Pittsburgh Dispatch. new year, when she held her first large reception, and the people came from miles around to see the presi- dent’s new house. Before the next national reception day Mr. Jefferson had taken possession of the mansion, and open house was the order of the day from the beginning of his occu- pancy. The apostle of democracy was wor- first shipments which the pilgrims sent back to England contained quan- tities of beaver pelts. The little ani- mals dwell in icy waters most of their lives and their under fur is singular- ly soft, firm and impervious to cold. The value of this fur has made “civ- ilized” man the beaver’s worst enemy, and has resulted almost in its extine- tion. The beaver were once numerous goric, Drops and Soothing and allays Feverishness. contains neither Opium, Morphine substance. Its age is its guarantee. For more than has been in constant use for the relief Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paree Syrups. It is pleasant. 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He received his commis- sion as a lieutenant of the Seventh in- fantry nearly forty years before the lowing his election. MARK TWAIN NO FINANCIER Humorist Lost Money in All Sorts of Wild Schemes and Rejected Golden Opportunity. Mark Twain, as most people know, was, during a number of years before his financial downfall, an exceedingly prosperous literary man, but unfortu- nately there were moments when he forgot that his lot was satisfactory and tried to improve it. His Colonel Sellers imagination, inherited from both sides of his family, led him into business ad- ventures that were generally unprofit- the great Southwest. Now he who would see one alive outside the zoo must go to the headwaters of the most inaccessible streams and be both fortunate and persistent. One shudders to think of the centu- ries of cruelty toward?these gentle and lovable animals and may well pause to wonder if the gain in fur value has not been more than offset by loss to mankind in other ways. For the beaver was one of the most potent forces for the preservation of our water supply that existed. Never a small stream flowed through a level meadow but beaver had built a brush and mud dam across it and thus strung ponds along it like a rope of pearls. These ponds held the waters in storage from the mountains to the o assimilates the Food, giving The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend. GENUINE CASTO Bears the Signature of healthy and natural sleep, In Use For Over 30 Years The Kind You Have Always Bought » RIA ALwAys CURTIS Y. WAGNER, BROCKERHOFF MILLS, BELLEFONTE, PA. Manufacturer, Wholesaler and Retailer of Roller Flour Feed Corn Meal and Grain Manufactures and has on hand at all times the following brands of high grade flour: THE Ew foto 0 Eli He wa pri able. When a man came along with a | sea along all small streams and were Ai NEW NRK Otvy. WHITE STAR 1812, and so gallantly defended Fort | Patent steam-generator that would of inestimable value in stopping DUR BEST Harrison against the Indians that he | S8Ve 90 per cent of the usual coal sup- | freshets and Naying droughts. One HIGH GRADE ply, Mark Twain invested his whole | cannot study a small stream in the 59-20-.0. VICTORY PATENT was breveted major and then promot- ed to full rank. As a colonel of the First infantry he made his mark in the Black Hawk war in 1832, and in 1836 he broke up the power of the Seminoles at Okeechobee, No two men could be more unlike than Zachary Taylor, “Old Rough and Ready,” and Woodrow Wilson, college president. No circumstances could be more unlike than the circumstances in which Zachary Taylor was put into the White House because of his par- ticipation in a war with Mexico and the circumstances in which President Wilson might become commander in chief of the American army and navy in a war with Mexico.—Chicago News. Making the Best of Things. « Those who are overtaken by blind- ness need never despair. Capt. Ernest Towse, V. C., who had both his eyes destroyed by a bullet in the Boer war, is now with the army in France. Nat- urally, he is not there as a combatant, .and is unable to be with his old regi- ment, the Gordon Highlanders, in the trenches. But he is busily engaged in the field hospitals, where, though sightless, he spends his time writing letters for wounded and dying, soi- diers, and in other charitable work. bank surplus and saw that money no more forever. Then came a steam-pul- ley, a small affair, but powerful enough to relieve him of $32,000 in a brief time. A new method of marine teleg- raphy, a promising contrivance, failed to return the $25,000 invested in it by the humorist; and so on and so on. Every scheme was plausible enough to catch Mark Twain, according to Al- bert Bigelow Paine, writing in St. Nicholas, except the one that would! have made his fortune. A certain Alexander Graham Bell appeared one day offering stock in an invention for carrying the human voice on an elec- tric wire. But Mark Twain had grown wise. He refused. to invest even $5,000, | Instead, he lent $5,000 to a friend, | who went bankrupt three days later. Summer Homes In Federal Forests. To promote a more general use of the national forest lands for summer home and recreational purposes, a federal law has been put into effect which al- lows the leasing at nominal fees of | tracts of ground of not more than five acres for periods up to 30 years. This plan replaces that hitherto in effect which provided for the issuance of re- : vocable permits. Because it was im- possible under that system for an indi- country today without finding the in- disputable evidence of this work, and the aomenclature is full of beaver dams, brooks, meadows and ponds. To kill such an animal for his fur is to commit a crime against conserva- tion. Man is beginning to recognize this now, in part at least, and in many States the beaver is now a protected animal so far as the law goes. Unfor- tunately the destruction has gone so far that the only survivors dwell in remote streams where the law if known is not obeyed. Beaver skins may still be sold in the fur markets and so long as this condition exists the beaver cannct increase. Indeed, for most of us, he is an extinct ani- mal. We may see the long mounds where once his dams were and the i peat meadows which were once his pond bottoms all grassy and flower .{ flecked today. But the gentle, shy, industrious animal is zone from our i familiar woodlands, probably forever. | That these interesting animals make fine pets is told well by Enos A. Mills in his interesting book, “In Beaver World:” “One autumn, when following the Lewis and Clark trail with a pack- horse in western Montana, I made camp one evening with a trapper who gave me a young beaver. He was about one month old, and ate twigs and bark as naturally as though he things and the counts big in a bank PREPAREDNESS We spend our lives preparing for one thing that emergencies is MONEY. Form the saving habit and let us help you with the first requisite, account. FANCY PATENT The only place in the county where that extraor- dinarily fine grade of spring wheat Patent Flour SPRAY can be secured. Also International Stock Food and feed of all kinds. All kinds of Grain bought at the office Flour xchanged for wheat. OFFICE and STORE—BISHOP STREET, BELLEFONTE, PA. MILL AT ROOPSBURG. ness Coal and Wood. 7-19 ‘emma THE VERY BEST FLOUR That Money Can Buy The First National Bank 59-1-1y Since becoming blind this brave man has acquired quite a large number of accomplishments, including that of typewriting, which he does with won- derful speed and skill. Indeed, this sightless man is a remarkable illustra- tion of making the best of things, and had long eaten them. I named him ‘Diver,’ and in a short time he was as chumray as a young puppy. Of an evening he played about the camp and often swam in the near-by water. At times he played at dam building and frequently displayed his accom- vidual to be certain of the duration of : his tenure, many persons showed re- | straint in making material improve- | ments on the grounds they held. It ; was largely because of this that the | present law was made. The term per- BELLEFONTE. PA. mination. He might have flopped. He might “have cursed God,” as Job was advised to do, and die. Instead of which, there he is bravely doing his best, and helping soothe the last hours of the wounded and dying. ie mas a splendid example of Christian deter- mits now granted necessitate the yearly payment of fees ranging upward: from $5 according to the location of the ground selected. Persons antici.’ pating making improvements not in ex- cess of $1,000 are able to obtain land permits from district foresters which: are effective for 15 years. Other’ plishment of felling wonderful trees that were about the size of a lead pencil. He nevér failed to come promptly when I whistled for him. At night he crouched near my camp, us- edge of the canvas on which I spread my bedding. Atop the pack on the horse’s back he traveled,—a ride nally packing himself under the | \ Geo. Danenhower & Son Wholesale Distributors, Painful Explanations. leases must be approved at Washing- which he evidently enjoyed. He was 61-6-1y. BELLEFONTE, PA. A man entered a Minneapolis saloon, | 00. When land is to be used for ho- | never in a hurry to be taken off, and shoved a lap robe across the bar and tel or resort purposes the application | at moving time he was always wait- cman said: “How many drinks will you give me on this?” Patrolman Leaman who saw the man enter the saloon followed and placed Johnson under arrest. The explanation as to the possession of the lap robe evidently did not sound convincing. “Where did you say you got that robe?” Judge Page asked the man, who was haled into police court on a charge of vagrancy. “I. met a young lad down here and he gave it to me.” “What was his name?” “I don’t know his name.” “This man, a total stranger, walked right up to you on the street and with- out saying a word, handed you this lap robe?” ; “That's right,” declared Johnson. “Fifteen days,” the judge ordered. “Huh?” “Thirty days,” the judge said. i “I heard you the first time,” said the prisoner. ‘ a Cand is accompanied by the plans, specifica-. tions, and estimated cost of the build- Ings to be erected and improvements to: be made.—Popular Mechanics Maga- zine, : Salt and Pellagra. A sharp increase in the number of cases of pellagra among the poor of Italy is expected to follow the issu- ance of a royal decree, adding an addi- tional tax of 1 cent on a pound of salt. There are about 120,000 cases of pellagra in Italy at present. Twenty per cent of the cases brought under observation are fatal. Pellagra de- velops almost exclusively among the poorer classes who subsist almost en- tirely on cornmeal in one form or an- other, Investigation has convinced Italian, medical men that the use of salt in cooking of corn products prevents fer || mentation and checks the disease. The new tax will put salt out of the reach of many thousands of Italians, ing eagerly to be lifted on. As soon as he noticed me arranging the pack, he came close, and before I was quite ready for him, he rose up, extending his hands in rapid succession beg- gingly, and with a whinnig sort of muttering pleaded to be lifted at once to his seat on the pack. : “He had a bad fright one evening. About one hour before sundown we had encamped as usual alongside a stream. He entered the water and after swimming about for a time, taking a dozen or so merry dives, he crossed to the opposite side. In plain view, only fifty feet away, I watched him as he busily dug out roots of the Oregon grape and then stooped lei- surely to eat them. While he was thus engaged a coyote made a dash for him from behind a boulder. Diver dodged, and the coyote missed. Giving a wail like a frightened child, my youngster rolled into the stream and dived. Presently he scrambled out of the water near me and made haste to crawl under my coat tail behind the log on whieh I sat. “The nearest beaver pond was a OMY. 56-6 BELLEFONTE PA. Apply Business Methods In Your Home! A bank account makes for HOUSEHOLD EFFICIENCY AND ECON. When you pay the bills of the grocer, the butcher, the baker by check you know fust how much it costs to run your home. BESIDES, A CHECK IS A RECEIPT. Ii You Haven't a Bank Atcoght Start One Today THE CENTRE COUNTY BANK, PAINT Will Improve Anything But the face of a pretty woman— for that needs no improvement. Perhaps your house does. If so, we would be glad to estimate on Painting or Paper Hanging no matter how small the job may be—and we will guarantee to do the the work right. Our past reputa- tion for good work and our exper- ience gained by 12 years at the business is at your command. FRED DUNZIK Painting and Decorating, Wall Paper and Paint Store. PLEASANT, GAP, PA. BELL PHONE. 61-20-tf
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